Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe idea of turning 60 brought William Forsythe a small but shocking recognition of his own mortality. Yet the work he choreographed in response was neither powere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMSunday, February 20, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonEva Yerbabuena is a visionary, magisterial dancer, whose effects go far beyond technique. The stark, angular shapes of her arms are electric with emotion; long percussi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMFriday, February 18, 2011
The Forsythe Company: I Don't Believe In Outer Space, LondonThese days, it's always difficult to predict what a new work by William Forsythe will look like. After making his mark on the 21st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, February 16, 2011
Cambridge JunctionMaresa von Stockert has a choreographic sensibility that's all her own, a mix of intellectual and sensory scrupulousness that makes her work strikingly original. In Masquer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PMFriday, February 11, 2011
State Of Emergency: Desert Crossings, On tourUK production company State Of Emergency has a fine record of commissioning new original works that engage artists of the African diaspora from a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, February 10, 2011
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonBallet Black deserve to celebrate as they stage their 10th-anniversary programme. This small, determined company have not only carved out a much-needed niche fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:29PMFriday, February 4, 2011
Royal Ballet: Swan Lake, LondonSwan Lake has been central to the Royal repertory, ever since the company was the fledgling Vic-Wells Ballet and could barely muster a full-size corps. Its cur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, February 3, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAntony Tudor was a British original, choreographing his early ballets with a rare and lethally observational eye. But in 1939, Tudor left for the US, and it's now ABT w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:55AMWednesday, February 2, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt was, ironically, an exiled Russian, Mikhail Mordkin, who laid the foundations for the American Ballet Theatre's launch. Fifty-one years later, it's another Russian, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMMonday, January 31, 2011
Jerwood Dance House, IpswichLuca Silvestrini is the sharpest of comic choreographers; his satires on the shallowness and obsessions of the modern world were wickedly honed in works such as B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMFriday, January 28, 2011
American Ballet Theatre, LondonAmerica's national ballet theatre brings a rich mix of one-act ballets to London, showing off their distinctive repertory of 20th and 21st-century work. The fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMLilian Baylis theatre, LondonMy thesaurus has nearly 40 synonyms and slang variants listed under the entry for laugh. But in the light of Antonia Baehr's mad and brilliant show about laughte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMThursday, January 27, 2011
He's a major choreographic force in Scandinavia, but Danish Dance Theatre's Brummie artistic director is little-known over here. He talks to Judith Mackrell about his struggle for acceptance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, January 25, 2011
He shook up the Bolshoi. Now Alexei Ratmansky is shaking up American Ballet Theatre. The unstoppable choreographer talks to Judith MackrellTwo years ago, Alexei Ratmansky was 40 years old �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46PMRoyal Opera House, LondonNehemiah Kish, who makes his debut in this season's Swan Lake, is proving an excellent acquisition for the Royal. He dances with a finely etched power and he can act…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PMMonday, January 24, 2011
Oxford PlayhouseTim Rushton – Birmingham-born and Royal Ballet school-trained – has built his entire career outside the UK, his last 10 years spent as director of Danish Dance Theatre. A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMFriday, January 14, 2011
The Imperial Ice Stars: Swan Lake On Ice, EdinburghIn the last few years there have been a flurry of ice dance productions all appropriating the music and stories of the 19th-century classic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, January 13, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonMost performances of Giselle are all about the ballerina. With a title role that arcs from pretty innocence to a rarefied spirituality, few ballets offer such a dema…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMWednesday, January 12, 2011
'To some extent dance critics are all body fascists'Alastair Macaulay, the New York Times dance critic, recently complained that a ballerina in the Nutcracker looked as if she had "eate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:16PMFriday, January 7, 2011
St Petersburg Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty, NottinghamSince it formed in 1994 the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre has established a niche on the international touring circuit, brin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, January 5, 2011
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdicts Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMMonday, January 3, 2011
Judith Mackrell anticipates two productions of Alice in Wonderland, and looks at the year's other dance highlightsIn the world of ballet, this is squaring up to be Lewis Carroll's year. Two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, December 31, 2010
Resolution! LondonThe stats accumulated during the last two decades of Resolution are pretty impressive. The Place's annual platform for new dance and new dance makers has clocked up perform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, December 17, 2010
Ballet on screenNothing can replace the experience of watching ballet in the theatre, but a project launched last year by the Bolshoi to transmit live performances via cinema screens around …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMWednesday, December 15, 2010
Royal Opera House, LondonSometimes all a ballerina needs is the right partner at the ball. Tamara Rojo, dancing Cinderella this week, seemed for most of act one to be slightly absent from he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20PMSunday, December 12, 2010
Coliseum, LondonThe Nutcracker may seem like a simple Christmas bauble of a ballet, but as Wayne Eagling's production for English National Ballet demonstrates, it's tricky to stage. Based on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMFriday, December 10, 2010
Cinderella, GlasgowAshley Page's setting of the Prokofiev fairytale score is darker and more satirical than most. Set in a decadent pre-revolutionary France, it exposes the gap between rich …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSadlers Wells, LondonEven when it was premiered 13 years ago, Matthew Bourne's Cinderella stood out from every other setting of Prokofiev's fairytale score. In brutal contrast to the tinsel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMTuesday, December 7, 2010
From recent coverage you'd think that ballet was risk-averse, abusive – even racist. But the artform is still alive and well in the 21st centuryBallet has had a difficult week. With the pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMWednesday, December 1, 2010
The Junction, CambridgeJavier de Frutos made himself a hard act to follow as director of Phoenix. Extravagant, brilliant and occasionally suicidal in his artistic choices, he put himself and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40PM 
